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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Flat file Post 302193094 by danmero on Thursday 8th of May 2008 01:04:02 PM
Old 05-08-2008
Using awk
Code:
awk '$6 ~ /1[0-1]88/{$3=9999}1' data.file

or sed
Code:
sed  '/1[0-1]88/s/7044/9999/g'   data.file


Last edited by danmero; 05-08-2008 at 02:10 PM.. Reason: add sed
 

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